Part of the reason the pandemic is so bad in US is because people who are never involved with scientific method are seeing Science unfold in real-time. Errors, evidence, & changing methodology happen 100%, but in public eye, seen as "they have no idea what they're talking about."
Transparency on this scale backfires bc in nearly all other circumstances, science is opaque & mostly provided to public eye through 2nd-3rd sources. People only see end result, not a process, so anything less than perfect is automatically labeled "deceptive" and "backtracking."
Even in a COVID world, we here at #SidewalkScienceCenter are still trying to safely perform public outreach in some capacity that encourages healthy dialogue & engages people with the scientific method firsthand. Support our efforts on @Patreon!
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We've put the full Sidewalk Science Center program on hiatus and will perform another assessment in early August. Our star parties are much more manageable in the current circumstances, as are single family events. Review our latest reopening update here:
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Adding to the thread after someone asked the question: what can we do to involve more people in science? My answer/suggestion is ONLY from my experiences.
